1. “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
2. ”Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
3. ”Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
4. “Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
5. "Eating words has never given me indigestion."
6. “Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”
7. ”For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
8. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
9. “I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
10. “I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
11. “I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”
12. “If you're going through hell, keep going.”
13. "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."
14. “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
15. ”It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”
16. “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
17. “Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
18. “Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
19. “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
20. "Of course, we are all worms -- but I like to think, at least, that I am a glowworm."
21. "Out of intense complexieties, intense simplicities emerge."
22. ”Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
23. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
24. ”The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.”
25. ”There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”
26. “There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”
27. "Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is."
28. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
29. “Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”
30. “Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.”
31. “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not drive on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
32. “Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
33. “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
